White House officials said Thursday that President Trump will sign an executive order this afternoon on campus free speech and college transparency. The executive order essentially directs federal agencies to ensure colleges are following existing requirements. And it doesn't spell out how enforcement of the order would work. It will direct 12 grant-mak […]

A series of recent reported incidents have raised the specter of tensions between faculty members and the international students they teach. The most recent such incident involved the resignation of a professor from the University of Maryland College Park -- first reported by WAMU 88.5 -- after the professor, David Weber, accused a group of students from Chi […]

Threats by transgender rights activists to disrupt an academic conference on prison reform over the organizer’s allegedly “transphobic” views on how inmates should be segregated have led to its cancellation. More than 300 people were expected to attend a two-day conference on prison abolition in Britain at the Open University’s campus in Milton Keynes at the […]